GMS Environment Operations Center
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Greater Mekong Subregion
(GMS) Environment Operations Center (EOC) was established in early 2006 to serve as the information and knowledge clearing house for environmental management
in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and is responsible for facilitating the timely and effective implementation of the GMS Core Environment Program (CEP). EOC will also act as a secretariatto the Working Group
on Environment (WGE), taking over the support functions, such as organizing and holding WGE meetings, coordinating WGE activities, reporting to the WGE, and other tasks which were previously carried out by the Asian Development Bank
(ADB).
The GMS Core Environment Program (CEP) has 5 components:
Component 1. Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) of GMS Economic Corridors and Priority Sectors
Component 2. Biodiversity
Conservation Corridors Initiative (BCI)
Component 3. Environmental Performance Assessments (EPAs)
Component 4. Capacity Building for Environmental Management
Component 5. Program Development, Delivery and Sustainable Financing
Greater Mekong Subregion
The Greater Mekong Subregion is not a geological region, but rather, a development project mooted by the Asian Development Bank in 1992 that brought together the riparian states of the Mekong River basin, namely Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Yunnan Province of China...
(GMS) Environment Operations Center (EOC) was established in early 2006 to serve as the information and knowledge clearing house for environmental management
Environmental management
Environmental resource management is “a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities” . It is not, as the phrase suggests, the management of the environment as such, but rather the management of the interaction and...
in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) and is responsible for facilitating the timely and effective implementation of the GMS Core Environment Program (CEP). EOC will also act as a secretariatto the Working Group
Working Group
Working Group can mean:*Working group, an interdisciplinary group of researchers; or*Working Group , kennel club designation for certain purebred dog breeds; or...
on Environment (WGE), taking over the support functions, such as organizing and holding WGE meetings, coordinating WGE activities, reporting to the WGE, and other tasks which were previously carried out by the Asian Development Bank
Asian Development Bank
The Asian Development Bank is a regional development bank established on 22 August 1966 to facilitate economic development of countries in Asia...
(ADB).
The GMS Core Environment Program (CEP) has 5 components:
Component 1. Strategic Environmental Assessments (SEAs) of GMS Economic Corridors and Priority Sectors
Component 2. Biodiversity
Biodiversity
Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. Biodiversity is a measure of the health of ecosystems. Biodiversity is in part a function of climate. In terrestrial habitats, tropical regions are typically rich whereas polar regions...
Conservation Corridors Initiative (BCI)
Component 3. Environmental Performance Assessments (EPAs)
Component 4. Capacity Building for Environmental Management
Environmental management
Environmental resource management is “a purposeful activity with the goal to maintain and improve the state of an environmental resource affected by human activities” . It is not, as the phrase suggests, the management of the environment as such, but rather the management of the interaction and...
Component 5. Program Development, Delivery and Sustainable Financing